1. Next Week Kidz Church In Recess Teen Church In recess Please stay for a cup of tea or coffee after the service. Members who require prayer meet in the chapel after the service. Prayer & Praise Requests: Lyn Redshaw – cracked vertebrae. Shirley Jennings – lung cancer, follow up visits to PS Hospital needed. Sid Tyler – started treatment. Mel & Nick Kleinhans – Mel has finished chemotherapy and radium treatment, but still very frail. Pray for all the people in frail care, all who are lonely and ill. No Thursday Prayer Meeting FridayYouth in recess for the school holidays COMMUNION HELPERS We still need 5 volunteers.. Please contact Carol in the office. Thank you Prayer Chain We are finding that prayer requests are not being passed down the prayer chain. Please if you can’t pass on a request immediately let the person who phoned you know so they themselves can pass the request on to the next person on the chain. Also, if you can’t get hold of the person beneath you on the chain please contact the next person. CHRISTMAS DAY OFFERING The Christmas Day Offering that was collected will go to the Baptist Union for pastoral pensioners and pastoral widows. Amount was R11 730. Sunday 11 January 9am Family Service August Basson - from Lesotho 6pm Evening Service Jordan Theron 9 DAY TOUR OF ISRAEL Departing 21 March 2015 Tour leaders John & Catrien Haupt Flyers and details are available on the table at the back of the church. There are BIBLES in the cupboard at the back of the church. Please put them back at the close of the service. There are also cushions for the chairs, under the stairs at the back of the church. Suggested Mission Statement from our Leadership Panorama weekend. Margate Baptist Church exists to GLORIFY GOD Through EVANGELISM-DISCIPLESHIP- FELLOWSHIP-WORSHIP By being a family where grace and love is unconditional, corporate worship essential, unity non- negotiable, and endeavouring to share Jesus with our community central. 2015 Baptist Union Assembly The 2015 Assembly will take place in Port Shepstone. Pastor Chris is on the sub- committee. Would anyone be willing to assist him as “Assembly Admin Rep”. Meditate on Scripture Listen to the Holy Spirit Speak Life Obey God’s Voice Step out in Faith Walk in Victory

2. BANK DETAILS Margate Baptist Church Standard Bank, Margate Acc No. 053273036 Branch No. 05752840 DUTIES: - 11January 2015 Door Duty: Mark & Ros Hooper / Howard & Claire Osborne Tea Duty: Webster’s Group Lock-up: Pieter Theron Lock-up Duty TODAY Marion Jones- Criag Office: Youth Office: 039 312 0245 youth@messypeople.com mbc@saol.com 039 312 1177 Senior Pastor: Children’s Pastor Chris Anderson Intern: 082 3833733 Monique Whelan 072 842 4022 Youth Pastoral Interns: Meghan Aereboe JP Momberg 073 240 7021 072 711 8878 Youth Workers Sarah Paxton Donne de Wet 076 637 2890 071 885 7237 Sermon Notes: Standing on the Threshold of Promise Genesis 3 The drama of Genesis 3 is repeated in the life of every child of God at every threshold of every new beginning: KNOWING THE STRATEGY OF OUR ENEMY AS WE MOVE FORWARD ACROSS THE THRESHOLD OF 2015 WILL HELP US TO AVOID THE TRAPS OF DERAILMENT HE HAS PLANNED FOR US 1. THE UNCHANGING PATTERN OF IDENTITY THEFT (v. 1-7)  The Craftiness of the Serpent  The Tactic he often uses  His Ultimate goal 2. THE UNAVOIDABLE CONSEQUENCES OF OVER- EXPOSURE (v. 8-19)  The Permanence of Knowledge  The Loss of Innocence (The Burden of Shame)  The Tendency to Separate 3. THE WAY BACK (v. 20-24)  The Acceptance of Consequence  A Commitment to primary Relationships  The Provision of the Tree of Life SO WHAT?  ——————————————- HAPPY BIRTHDAY To Mark Hooper 4 th David Jennings 4 th Howard Osborne 5 th Peter Swinney 5 th Vanessa Parry 9 th A BIG Happy Birthday to Dave Jennings who celebrates his 80 th birthday today.